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Category: Opinion/Letters

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Three

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Three

Posted on November 27, 2024November 29, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Do PAWSD customers want to pay for a reservoir they don’t need?  Maybe not?

Posted in Opinion/Letters

LETTER: The Impending Benefits of Cultivated-Meat Research

Posted on November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 by Post Contributor

The new protein has been approved by the USDA and the FDA, but is currently too expensive to mass produce…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Two

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part Two

Posted on November 26, 2024November 27, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“I’m sorry.  You’ve gone too far now.  You’re asking for people to make things up, and that’s what got us into this problem in the beginning…”

Posted in Opinion/Letters
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Shooting Range in Aspen Springs

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Shooting Range in Aspen Springs

Posted on November 26, 2024November 26, 2024 by Gary Beatty

From what I’ve been able to gather, the proposed range is within two miles of our Aspen Springs property…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part One

EDITORIAL: A Long Story About an Imaginary Water Shortage, Part One

Posted on November 25, 2024November 26, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Too often, citizen board members, lacking information, are shooting from the hip, while simultaneously defending their political “turf”…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
BIG PIVOTS: Colorado’s Decarbonization Will Continue Despite Trump Triumph

BIG PIVOTS: Colorado’s Decarbonization Will Continue Despite Trump Triumph

Posted on November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 by Allen Best

DC will be very different in January. But Colorado has strong momentum on its emissions-reduction journey…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Dumbfounded by Mr. Proffitt’s Behavior

Posted on November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 by Gary Beatty

If we look up the term ‘scofflaw’ in a dictionary, we shouldn’t be surprised to see Mr. Proffitt’s portrait next to the definition…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Living in Paradise

EDITORIAL: Living in Paradise

Posted on November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 by Post Contributor

I’m not sure how many grandparents, here in Pagosa Springs, live in the same house as their grandchildren…

Posted in Opinion/Letters

LETTER: Pagosa Ag Water Users Increasing Irrigation Efficiency

Posted on November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 by Post Contributor

Between 2015 and 2024, 44 ag producers in Archuletta spent $920,000 for irrigation gated pipe to use on 10,833 acres of land…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues... Part Eight

EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Eight

Posted on November 21, 2024December 2, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Some of our Daily Post readers may recall that Mr. Proffitt resigned as President of SJWCD in 2017…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
BIG PIVOTS: A Crazy, Upside-Down World

BIG PIVOTS: A Crazy, Upside-Down World

Posted on November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 by Allen Best

Will Toor, the director of the Colorado Energy Office, is making some point to Jennifer Granholm, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues... Part Seven

EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Seven

Posted on November 20, 2024November 21, 2024 by Bill Hudson

A panel of local residents, connected to various water uses, fielded audience questions at the “This is Your Watershed” film event at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
OPINION: Archuleta County Ready to Approve a Disastrous Shooting Range?

OPINION: Archuleta County Ready to Approve a Disastrous Shooting Range?

Posted on November 20, 2024November 22, 2024 by Post Contributor

The applicant has so much property over there they could build 10 shooting ranges and still be a mile away from the nearest neighbor…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues... Part Six

EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Six

Posted on November 19, 2024November 20, 2024 by Bill Hudson

“Maybe we can find someone who wants to buy the Ranch, and also work with the community to build a reasonable reservoir project in the middle of it…”

Posted in Opinion/Letters
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: What Actually Cost the Democrats the 2024 Election

INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: What Actually Cost the Democrats the 2024 Election

Posted on November 19, 2024November 19, 2024 by John Tures

You’ll find no shortage of articles critical of Harris, saying she was too conservative, or too liberal…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues... Part Five

EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Five

Posted on November 18, 2024November 19, 2024 by Bill Hudson

One type of survey is intentionally designed to discover new and useful information, which is needed to make the best possible decisions, moving forward…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Bright Future for Comedy in American Politics

A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: A Bright Future for Comedy in American Politics

Posted on November 18, 2024November 18, 2024 by Gary Beatty

How can we not find the actions of these governors amusing?

Posted in Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Trust Issues... Part Four

EDITORIAL: Trust Issues… Part Four

Posted on November 15, 2024November 18, 2024 by Bill Hudson

Superintendent Holt and Chief Executive of Operations Sanchez seemed to be suggesting that our local school buildings were reaching — or had already reached — the end of their useful lives…

Posted in Opinion/Letters
DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: There's a Bad Moon on the Rise

DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise

Posted on November 15, 2024November 15, 2024 by DC Duncan

And with any pending dangerous storm, we can only hope for the best, and expect the worst…

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